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Stocks bounced back Monday as investors snapped up bargains after recent declines.
The Nikkei 225 average rose 140.82 points, or 0.65 percent, to end at 21,821.16. On Friday, the key market gauge fell 123.28 points.
The Topix, which covers all first-section issues on the Tokyo Stock ...

India is planning to adopt a new strategy toward negotiating free trade agreements even as the country is engaged in talks with members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the proposed ASEAN-focused regional free trade area.
As part of the strategy, the South Asian country ...

As mentioned before, the sōgō shōsha have two fundamental business models: Their traditional, core business model as trader, supplier, wholesaler and distributor of a vast array of goods and materials upstream and downstream in the supply or value chain, and as an organizer of ...

China's former top trade negotiator has questioned Beijing's strategy in the trade row with Washington, offering a rare window into a policy disagreement in the communist-ruled country.
Long Yongtu, who paved the way for the country's admission to the World Trade Organization, suggested the government ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's $250 billion economic battle with China has run into a one-man obstacle. A trade-war whisperer working for the other side.
From a Hong Kong apartment, entrepreneur Ben Chu runs contract negotiation lessons online for Chinese factory owners and businesses to give ...

Fresh clashes in the "yellow vest" fuel price protests across France led to more injuries on Sunday, adding to the more than 400 already reported by the government, as some demonstrators vowed to continue their action over the coming days.
Around 46,000 people took part ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies and social networks to protect personal data are "inevitable."
In an interview with news website Axios being broadcast broadcast Sunday on HBO television, Cook said he expected the U.S. Congress would take up the ...

The launch of an Apple store on the Champs Elysees in Paris was greeted Sunday by a protest against the U.S. multinational's controversial fiscal practices.
Activists from the tax campaign group Attac gathered on the celebrated boulevard, wearing colored wigs and party hats, throwing confetti ...

Forty-four percent of German firms expect a further escalation of trade tensions between Europe and the United States, which is likely to continue to dampen new investments, the RND newspaper chain reported, citing a survey by the IW economic institute.
Thirty-four percent do not see ...

The dozens of young Chinese engineers looked nervous, but eager, as they presented their work in English during a hack-athon in September at the high-rise Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo.
But while the event hosted by Mercari Inc., maker of a popular flea market app, ...

Like many of Japan's smaller cities, Miyazaki has been hit by a growing labor crunch, a trend highlighted by the mere 56.8 percent of high school graduates that chose to remain in the prefecture to work — third-worst among the 47 prefectures.
In the hard-hit ...

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Not every Japanese entrepreneur manages to launch a startup in Silicon Valley, and odds are even lower if that person wants to take on the challenge of the U.S. housing market.
But this is an adventure that Takeshi Homma has embarked on with his company, Homma Inc.
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Ikea Japan K.K. said Thursday it will open an outlet in front of Harajuku Station in Tokyo in spring 2020.
It will be its first urban outlet in Japan, according to the unit of the Swedish furniture retailer.
The 2,500-sq.-meter store will occupy the first and second floors of a building bei...

The world's most pampered cows are finding that a key supplement in their carefully designed diet is getting harder to come by thanks to thousands of pigs falling sick in China.
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Nintendo Co. is gambling that it can sell millions of Switch consoles this holiday season by introducing a new "Pokemon" game that interacts with the free-to-play mobile hit "Pokemon Go," as well as a new character that resembles a hex nut.
"Let's Go Pikachu" and "Let's Go Eevee," which went o...